AATB Please visit our Annual Meeting page to view the agenda and cutting-edge education topics; book your hotel room; and learn a little bit about traveling to Canada. We're looking forward to seeing you in Toronto!READ MORE

ForbesBiobanking is here. Artificial Intelligence-driven process automation, data analytics, robotics, the internet,and other rapidly emerging technological advances are driving the revolution of biobanks, biorepositories and biospecimen science. With the evolution of biobanking from a simple collection of frozen specimens to the virtual biobanks and bioscience seen today, the rise of biobanks brings each nation and its healthcare and economic systems a transformative potential.
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BioSpaceAnaBios Corp. announced it is providing validated human dorsal root ganglion to the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, a component of the National Institutes of Health, for research collaborations to develop human cell-based screening platforms and novel drugs to treat pain and opioid use disorder.
The collaborations are part of the NIH's Helping End Addiction Long-term Initiative.READ MORE

XconomyOrganovo says it has run out of money to advance its efforts to develop 3-D "patches" of living human liver tissue to tide over people waiting for an organ transplant.
The San Diego-based biotech has been working since 2007 to use a method known as bio-printing to come up with such a product, which Organovo was developing for patients with end-stage liver disease and a group of rare diseases that also necessitate organ transplantation. READ MORE

San Francisco ChronicleThe human microbiome is a complex ecosystem of trillions of foreign organisms that live in and on every person's body, and it's closely connected to almost every facet of health — from immune function and metabolism to illnesses like allergies, multiple sclerosis and inflammatory bowel disease.
Both UCSF and Stanford are introducing new research programs to study and harness the microbiome with $35 million in grants from Marc and Lynne Benioff.READ MORE

Science DailyIn every tissue throughout our bodies, various cell types are communicating and coordinating their efforts to perform vital functions and maintain health.
In a new study led by the University of Michigan, researchers have now created a high-resolution picture of the cells at work inside a key hub of metabolism — the liver — and how individual cell types are reprogrammed in disease.
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TechCrunchNew successes in printing vascular tissue from living cells point to the accelerating pace of development of 3-D-printing tissue — and eventually the ability to manufacture organs from small samples of cells.
Late last month, Prellis Biologics announced an $8.7 million round of funding and some significant advancements that point the way forward for 3-D-printed organs, while a company called Volumetric Bio unveiled significant progress of its own earlier this year.
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Medical XpressTree-like branching structures are everywhere in the human body, from the bronchial system in the lungs to the spidering capillaries that supply blood to the extremities. Researchers have long worked to understand the cellular signaling needed to build these intricate structures, but new research suggests that simple physics may play an underappreciated role.
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Verdict Medical DevicesResearchers at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland are developing smart sensors which can monitor the healing progress of a wound, eliminating the need to look underneath a bandage.
The sensors detect wound healing by monitoring microscale changes in the body's tissue. The research group, led by Heriot-Watt assistant professor Dr Michael Crichton, has been awarded £360,000 from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
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AATBThis year, the Certified Tissue Bank Specialist Examination will be held electronically at nearly 1,100 testing center locations across the globe during a one-week period in September. Registration will be open through September 13th!
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AATBCertified Tissue Bank Specialist, or CTBS, is an individual designation which is attained by passing the CTBS Examination. It is strongly recommended that examinees use the AATB Prep Course to prepare for the exam. The CTBS Prep Course is available on-demand now, so register today! READ MORE